A man whose 2016 hack of Bitfinex drained nearly 120,000 bitcoin from that cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison for a money laundering scheme that he and his wife pulled off to hide the swiped crypto.

Last year, Ilya Lichtenstein and his social media rapper wife pled guilty to laundering $4.5 billion worth of Bitcoin from Bitfinex.

A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges,

The mastermind behind one of the biggest-ever Bitcoin heists was ordered to serve five years in prison for conspiring with his social-media rapper wife to launder money he stole by hacking into the Bitfinex exchange and grabbing crypto assets now worth billions of dollars.

Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced on Thursday for his role in a money laundering conspiracy related to the theft of $3.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency from virtual currency exchange Bitfinex,

A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — has been sentenced to five years in prison.

A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges,